I watch my colleague Xavier Graset's program many nights (Més 324, Monday through Friday, channel 324 and TV3) for the pleasure of confirming that there are always more pro-independence gatherings than autonomists (mocking the Catalan electorate) and because he talks about books with their authors ( in the absence of a whole hour on books on Catalan public television).
But on Monday night everything jumped out in Graset's interview with the author of the book Requiem català. And if one was born parader by a vermella catifa, the Catalan-speaking and Catalan actress and poet Juana Dolores (El Prat de Llobregat, 1992). The artist sprouted. A Vesuvian outbreak! An outbreak that makes history. I took a screenshot and tweeted it, speechless: what I saw was too new to subtitle. I evoked “millennialism is coming!” de Arrabal (at Dragó's) and "I've come to talk about my book!" of Threshold (at Milá's). Another gritty, unpredictable-as-life television pearl of true television.
"Let's see if the director and the old people's leadership of TV3 resign and we do something better if young people come in," Juana Dolores snapped at Graset ("how much do you charge, 3,000 euros?" she inquired): that is, the Television still interests educated young people who understand that it is still powerful. That is why Juana Dolores accused TV3 of "validating Junts and the fucking old man from Trías" (faltón ageism): "I hope a meteorite falls on him!" (metaphor), she wished, making Iolanda Batallé (a conspicuous commentator who “insuredly charges more than 3,000 euros”) ugly in her defense of Trías. Juana Dolores sent another meteorite to “the Ona bookstore” (it sells only books in Catalan and orchestrates sovereignist events, with the usual presence of Jordi Pujol) so that it “blows up everything”. She incidentally satirized "those from the CUP, hippies who do Gestalts and stuff."
"I don't know how you don't tell your commentators to wake up (do you choose them or do they impose them on you?), TV3 journalists don't do your job", the artist rebuked Xavier Graset ("what ineptitude", "you are all from rights”, “what a shame”) and called for “Marxist” and “class” analyzes (here it became old). It was an ideological and critical spectacle without respite, overwhelming: "We must dismantle the institutional Catalan identity orchestrated by the ruling classes of this country, Catalan identity is multiple, it is in the streets", he stressed in defense of a "red and pink Catalonia, popular and feminine” (with charm and glamour, that is).
Juana Dolores (“I've come to shit on everything!”) made me see that TV3 needs now! a space for debate that confronts ideas beyond today's blissful uniformity. The artist repeated that TV3 is "my country's public television" and interpreted an outbreak -suicidal?- of freedom: this Catalan woman -like thousands- does not want to close TV3 (nor to be seen there as "integrated charnega"), but to open his! public television to the bustling plurality of the streets and neighborhoods, to non-independence gazes, to daring impure and liminal ideas, and to all the Vesuvian sprouts of freedom: very healthy and very holy ambition! – @amelanovela
